There are other high-res laptops out there, but this year’s more powerful and affordable 13-inch Retina MacBook Pro is one of the best of the bunch, and makes a compelling case for upgrading from the 13-inch Air.

Apple's reportedly testing larger sizes for an iPad, but what kinds of products could that open up? Barclays believes it will be a new kind of laptop replacement, and one that stacks up better with Microsoft's Surface 2.